Wall-To-Wall: Begonia Album Listening Party
- Date
- Saturday, Sep 7, 2019, 4pm - 10:30pm
- Performers
- Begonia
- Location
- The Tallest Poppy
- Address
- 103 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Promoters
- Wall-To-Wall Mural + Culture Festival
About
Join Begonia and Wall-to-Wall Mural & Culture Festival for an intimate album listening and video premiere party.
Begonia is digitally releasing her debut full-length album, Fear, on September 13th, so come gather at Tallest Poppy and experience an exclusive peek into the artist’s creative process. You can expect drag and dance performances, cocktails, as well as a Q + A and live performance by Begonia herself!
Begonia and Synonym Art Consultation are teaming up on a video trailer for Fear, which will be premiered at this event.
As Begonia, Alexa Dirks is bold, brazen with her florid, surprising pop that is tempered with sensitivity and wisdom. Dirks' first solo output with her 2017 debut EP, Lady in Mind, was well-received, being listed on NPR’s 10 Artists You Need To Know in 2017 and “Juniper” reached #1 on the CBC 2 Music Charts. Noisey wrote that, “Begonia has one of Canada’s most extraordinary voices, and thankfully she uses it to obliterate the misery from this world one live performance at a time.” NPR wrote that Begonia is “the place where where synth-pop meets old soul and scrappy meets sexy."
Whether it’s learning to come into her own or processing a brutal heartbreak, Dirks’ intimate lyrics and audacious sound allows for her audience to relate to the messiness of life with an honesty that is refreshing.
With Begonia’s debut full-length album, entitled Fear, Dirks leans hard into a sense of arrival. She wrote and co-produced the record with a familiar team: Matt Schellenberg and Matt Petters of Royal Canoe, along with Marcus Paquin, who has previously worked with The National, Arcade Fire and Local Natives.
FIRST SHOW 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
SECOND SHOW 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
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